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Home School in the Woods is thrilled to announce a new line of educational resources, the Time Travelers History Study series. These unit studies on CD-ROM are designed to create a hands-on learning experience that drives the lessons home in a fun way.
The first in this series, New World Explorers, contains 25 lessons that can spread across 5-10 weeks, covering: Reasons for Exploration, A Sailor's Life, Ships, Navigation, 23 Explorer Profiles, Pirates, and more!
Written text is included as well as several choices of activities for each lesson.
Activities Include:
- Creative Writing
- European Recipes
- Factfile Cards
- File Folder Games
- Science Experiments
- Notebook Timeline
- Penmanship Pages
- Notebooking Activities
- Three-dimensional Projects such as an Incan Artifact, Ship's Log, Pueblo Diorama, plus more!
- 10 Lap Book Projects, including mapping, pop-ups, layered books, etc.
- And a final "Exploration Celebration" to bring the unit to a close!
Click on the image to the upper right to see what you can create with this CD!
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The CD includes each lesson's text pages, project overview pages, and a wide variety of masters for projects! Photos and drawings help illustrate the directions for completing the 35 activities. Choose the projects that work best for your family! Five "Project Days" are built into the schedule to help allow for extra time to complete outstanding projects.
Also included are teacher helps, resource lists, teacher keys, and a "guide-at-a-glance." This one-page guide will allow the teacher to see the whole schedule of upcoming topics and projects on one page. Tastefully laid out for inclusion in your three-ring binder, this unit study will give both the teacher and students a thorough, exciting adventure into the classic Age of Exploration!
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